{"id":2641,"date":"2007-07-29T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2007-07-29T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T18:11:00","slug":"2641","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2641","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">&#8220;The worst thing a writer can do is to launch an internal editor during the writing process. Nothing could be more stifling.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/zyzzyvaspeaks.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/self-editing.html\">Howard Junker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/?p=6413\">Ed Champion<\/a> is right that there isn&#8217;t &#8220;any uniform manner to writing a novel, except to get to the end of the damn thing,&#8221; but this has definitely been <i>my<\/i> worst problem when writing: fretting over the words so much that I don&#8217;t actually write them. This may be why I find the free-writing exercises I do locally with friends &#8212; and that, once upon a time, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/600seconds.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a>. Even when whatever I&#8217;ve written isn&#8217;t any <i>good<\/i>, there&#8217;s great satisfaction in actually getting words down on the page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lectio.ca\/\">Heather<\/a> may suggest this is a perfect reason to take part in the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3daynovel.com\/\">3-Day Novel Writing Contest<\/a> &#8212; to have any hope of success, you can&#8217;t help but <i>just<\/i> write &#8212; but I don&#8217;t know&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The worst thing a writer can do is to launch an internal editor during the writing process. Nothing could be more stifling.&#8221; Howard Junker Ed Champion is right that there isn&#8217;t &#8220;any uniform manner to writing a novel, except to get to the end of the damn thing,&#8221; but this has definitely been my worst &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2641\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}